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...however, most metropolitan newspapers in the land ran almost identical front-page stories from Washington. It was the kind of dispatch President Hoover was glad to see in print, though nowhere was he personally mentioned. Knowing readers suspected White House inspiration, under the Hoover system of supplying correspondents with "background" which they are not privileged to attribute directly to the President. The gist of the story was as follows...
...affairs caused President Hoover concern. He pondered it carefully with his Cabinet. Obviously the Government could not be allowed to run deeper & deeper into debt during the Depression. After newsmen had had a press conference with the President, there began to appear identical newsstories with an authoritative White House background to the effect that the President had not "closed his mind" to tax upping at the coming session of Congress, that Europe's condition "dominated" U. S. economic recovery, that he hoped for a revival of foreign trade soon. Much was made of the fact that the treasury...
...exciting play of incident illuminated this story as it was told on the stage. The dark background of the house, squalid, heavy and forlorn, held it together and suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house...
Unquestionably the greatest of U. S. churchmen, Cardinal Gibbons was a Renaissance scholar-statesman-priest in a U.S. pioneer background. Born in Baltimore in 1834, he was chaplain to Federal troops during the Civil War. In 1868 he was appointed Missionary Bishop to the new Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, never forgot his welcome in Wilmington: a torchlight procession of drunken negroes, exulting in their new freedom. Youngest Bishop in his church at the Vatican Council of 1870, he became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, Cardinal...
...Most of us are apt to think," said he. "that the battle has been won when it is' possible for the broadcasters to eliminate extraneous noise and present our music against a background of silence. Admittedly, that is a very great step forward since the early days of radio, but it is very far from being...